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Verloc attends a meeting at a foreign embassy with a secretary named Mr. Vladimir. Verloc has been secretly employed by the embassy as an undercover agent for 11 years, but Vladimir believes that Verloc has grown lazy and isn’t earning his keep.
Chapter 1 takes place at Mr. Verloc's pornography shop in 1880s London. The omniscient narrator offers a glimpse of the ... Read More. Chapter 2. Mr. Verloc is summoned to an unnamed foreign embassy. For the past 11 years he has been employed as a secret agent and r... Read More.
- The Setup
- The Bombing
- The Prelude
- The Aftermath
The first three chapters set up the action of The Secret Agent. Mr. Verloc operates a pornography shop at Brett Place in the Soho neighborhood of London. He is married to Winnie Verloc who helps him run the shop. Winnie's mother and brother also live with them behind the shop. Winnie's brother Stevieis a young man who is fair-haired and attractive....
The narration of The Secret Agentis organized out of order and the following chapters take the reader to the afternoon of the bombing. Ossipon and an explosives expert called The Professor discuss the news of the bombing at a clubhouse. The Professor explains to Ossipon how he made the explosive device for Mr. Verloc. They both assume the sole vict...
The narrative flashes back in time to a few weeks prior to the bombing. Winnie's mother has decided to move out of the Verloc home and live in a charity house. She knows that she is a burden and does not want to test the generosity of Mr. Verloc who is supporting her son and daughter. Stevie becomes upset while on the way to the charity house at th...
Winnie Verloc finally realizes her brother has been killed after Chief Inspector Heat confronts Mr. Verloc at his shop about his involvement in the bombing. She is silent in her grief and shock. Mr. Verloc attempts to explain that he did not intend for Stevie to be hurt. Winnie realized she is free from her husband now that her sole purpose for exi...
The novel describes events in the life of a man named Verloc, a secret government agent for an unnamed country living in London in 1886, who is ordered to carry out a bombing with the goal of manipulating the British government.
The spy plot at the heart of The Secret Agent is specifically rooted in anarchism, a political movement that’s also explored in Henry James’s 1886 novel The Princess Casamassima and G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday (1908).
The Secret Agent Summary. Adolf Verloc, a secret agent in the employ of the Embassy, has been embedded in the socialist Red Committee in London.
The Secret Agent study guide contains a biography of Joseph Conrad, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
